assertEquals("abc", Strings.commonPrefix(new StringBuffer("abcdef"), "abcxyz"));

    // Identical valid surrogate pairs.
    assertEquals(
        "abc\uD8AB\uDCAB", Strings.commonPrefix("abc\uD8AB\uDCABdef", "abc\uD8AB\uDCABxyz"));
    // Differing valid surrogate pairs.
    assertEquals("abc", Strings.commonPrefix("abc\uD8AB\uDCABdef", "abc\uD8AB\uDCACxyz"));
    // One invalid pair.

     * soon be deprecated.
     *
     * @throws IllegalArgumentException if duplicate key pairs were added
     */
    public ImmutableTable<R, C, V> build() {
      return buildOrThrow();
    }

    /**
     * Returns a newly-created immutable table, or throws an exception if duplicate key pairs were
     * added.
     *

        final Map<String, List<String>> paramListMap = new HashMap<>();
        final String[] pairs = queryString.split("&");
        try {
            for (final String pair : pairs) {
                final int pos = pair.indexOf('=');
                if (pos >= 0) {
                    final String key = urlCodec.decode(pair.substring(0, pos), enc);

      Comparator<Entry<K, V>> entryComparator(@Nullable Comparator<? super K> keyComparator) {
    return new EntryComparator<K, V>(keyComparator);
  }

  /**
   * Asserts that all pairs of {@code T} values within {@code valuesInExpectedOrder} are ordered
   * consistently between their order within {@code valuesInExpectedOrder} and the order implied by
   * the given {@code comparator}.
   *

 * especially useful for command-line configuration of a {@code CacheBuilder}.
 *
 * <p>The string syntax is a series of comma-separated keys or key-value pairs, each corresponding
 * to a {@code CacheBuilder} method.
 *
 * <ul>
 *   <li>{@code concurrencyLevel=[integer]}: sets {@link CacheBuilder#concurrencyLevel}.

 *
 * <p>When iterating through the collections supplied by this class, the ordering of values for a
 * given key agrees with the order in which the values were added.
 *
 * <p>This multimap allows duplicate key-value pairs. After adding a new key-value pair equal to an
 * existing key-value pair, the {@code ArrayListMultimap} will contain entries for both the new
 * value and the old value.
 *

     * soon be deprecated.
     *
     * @throws IllegalArgumentException if duplicate key pairs were added
     */
    public ImmutableTable<R, C, V> build() {
      return buildOrThrow();
    }

    /**
     * Returns a newly-created immutable table, or throws an exception if duplicate key pairs were
     * added.
     *

    Escapers.Builder builder = Escapers.builder();
    // The char values \uFFFE and \uFFFF are explicitly not allowed in XML
    // (Unicode code points above \uFFFF are represented via surrogate pairs
    // which means they are treated as pairs of safe characters).
    builder.setSafeRange(Character.MIN_VALUE, '\uFFFD');
    // Unsafe characters are replaced with the Unicode replacement character.
    builder.setUnsafeReplacement("\uFFFD");

 * splitting an existing long string into short strings adaptively around {@linkplain
 * Character#isHighSurrogate surrogate} {@linkplain Character#isLowSurrogate pairs}, or by starting
 * with short strings already known to be free of unpaired surrogates.
 *
 * <p>The two primary implementations of this interface are {@link CharEscaper} and {@link

  /** Returns an immutable snapshot of the current statistics. */
  public PairedStats snapshot() {
    return new PairedStats(xStats.snapshot(), yStats.snapshot(), sumOfProductsOfDeltas);
  }

  /** Returns the number of pairs in the dataset. */
  public long count() {
    return xStats.count();
  }

  /** Returns an immutable snapshot of the statistics on the {@code x} values alone. */
  public Stats xStats() {